Comment on Longtime Division I assistant named head football coach at Bates College

LEWISTON, Maine — Malik Hall, who has spent most of his career as an assistant at Division I programs, has been named the head football coach at Bates College. Hall, who becomes the 20th head football coach in the program’s 124-year history, comes to Bates after spending three seasons as the defensive line coach at the University of Pennsylvania. Before Penn, he served as an assistant at Wagner, Fordham, Hofstra, Central Connecticut State and his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts. “We are delighted to welcome Malik Hall to the Bobcat family,” Bates College Director of Athletics Jason Fein said in a news release.